Ledum - plant poisonous, from one its aroma it becomes bad, the head starts to hurt or be ill; be sick. The hunters know about this, therefore they avoid it, because the dog, after sniffing in the thickets of the Ledum, becomes sluggish, as if drunk. Where does the beautiful and dangerous Ledum grow?
Where is the wild rosemary growing in nature?
The plant prefers marshy places, peat bogs, moss bogs. Often it can be found in swampy coniferous forest areas with cedar stems. In the neighborhood with it often grows blueberry.
Also, rosemary grows in deciduous woodlands, for example, among shrubby birches. You can meet him and along the mountain rivers and streams, on the eastern slopes of the mountains.
In Russia, the habitat of Ledum is mainly the Far East and Siberia. Where the Ledum grows in Ukraine: in the northern and western regions.
Kinds of Ledum
There are several species of this plant, depending on what may be slightly different, where, in what zone grows a rosemary:
- Swampy wild rosemary is widely distributed in nature, where it grows: its native land is the Arctic, Western and Eastern Siberia, the East European Plain, Southern and Northern Europe, Korea and China. It grows on peat bogs, upland bogs, in the undergrowth of moist coniferous forests, along mountain streams and rivers. It occurs both in groups and in small thickets.
- Greenlandish Ledum - grows in the north and west of North America on peat bogs.
- Ramshaker is the home of the Far East and Eastern Siberia, North America and Greenland. It grows in the tundra, on sandy hills, thickets of cedar stems, on stony placers.
- Large-leaved rosemary - grows in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, as well as in Japan and North Korea. Prefers undergrowth of coniferous forests, sphagnum marshes, margins of stony placers in thickets of heather bushes.
The use of a rosemary
Despite the fact that the whole plant is poisonous, it is actively used in folk medicine. It is collected during the flowering period (June-August). The grass is dried outdoors, then used in folk medicine and homeopathy .
Drugs based on Ledum soften cough, help to remove phlegm, relax the muscles of the bronchi. In addition, Ledum has analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Ledum is also used for fumigation of rooms for the destruction of insects and mites. They are treated with livestock - pigs and horses.